27th July
2016
When I told the missed
opportunity of attending my friend Mr. Venkatesh, son’s marriage at Devakottai, one of my friends Mr. Nachiappan, in turn, invited me to Devakottai
to attend the Kottai Amman’s annual 15 days festival, which is unique in nature
and lakhs of people used attend from various parts of India. So I decided
to attend the festival to get the blessings of Sri Kottai Amman. I
stayed along with his family and visited two Shiva temples and a Saibaba temple.
SRI
VEERASEKARAR TEMPLE, SAKKOTTAI, SIVAGANGA DISTRICT
The
temple is maintained by 130 pulli Devakottai Nagarathars through former Chief Justice A R Lakshmanan and his family. They have their
madam which was renovated recently.
Moolavar :
Sri Veerasekarar
Consort : Sri Umayambigai.
Some
of the important features of this temple are…
The
temple faces east with a 7-tier Rajagopuram and a temple pond in
front with a mandapam. The
temple was constructed in stages like a mada temple. Constructed
completely with stone. In koshtam Vinayagar, Dakshinamurthy, Brahma, Durgai.
In
the inner praharam 63var, Bhairavar Subramaniyar, Gajalakshmi, Perumal
(This Vishnu statue was unearthed during renovation at Nandhavanam),
Bairavar, Natarajar, Navagrahas, Veeramaram in stone with Nagars.
Ambal
sannadhi is in the front mandapam with separate Dwajasthambam, Palipedam and
Nandi.
There
are about 4 statues of Nagarathars sculptured on the pillars (Might have done
thirupani to this temple).
HISTORY
There is no inscription on the Moolavar sanctum but available in the front mandapam, which is of the latter period. From the recent period inscription it was learned that the Kumbhabhishekam was conducted during 1887 and from other inscriptions, the temple might have been constructed during the 15th to 16th century.
HOW TO REACH :
The
temple is very near to Karaikudi and can be reached by Taxi and the frequency of
the bus is limited.
LOCATION OF THE TEMPLE: CLICK
HERE
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